Disney's The Black Hole: The (story of the) Cygnus ( mission, expedition, etc.) - outline/ideas (some very rough working notes)
(a series proposal for Disney+ / DisneyPlus; with a story-arc of maybe 3-5 seasons?)
The lost expedition (& what about the other ships/craft, etc. mentioned, etc. in tbh movie....? ?). How does mankind's greatest adventure, with a crew of the best and the brightest that humanity has to offer, turn into a nightmare of madness and betrayal, and a ship of the living dead?
the story of the cygnus mission, & how it went from a voyage of discovery, all idealism/man's greatest adventure (first manned interstellar mission/search for [intelligent?] life, etc.), to a nightmare on a ghost ship?
(first, )we are going to make you fall in love (with them (all) /with this ship & its crew, their mission, etc.), & then we are going to break your heart....
(i.e.: what happened BEFORE the movie. what went wrong & how... etc.)sort of an "anti" star trek/starfleet? (or, more like, starting out that way, it is grand & it is glorious, bold, brave, adventurous, all the good, idealistic things; & for a while it really does work like that, but then it all goes horribly, terribly wrong... )
from the start of the mission (with preceeding-events material/history/etc.) to the situation at the start of 'the black hole' movie
-OUTLINE-
say a 5-season story-arc? (star trek tos references, re: 5-year mission ;p) (whatever the internal-to-the-story timeline; how long for everything to play out? building from the info/history given in the movie: from mission-start to the palomino encounter gives an overall timeline, but how long for the mission to fall apart & things to end up basically the way they are on the cygnus @ the time of the film? enough time to do a lot of their mission, & fall into dispute over whether to continue, or go back home, for one thing. enough time for the crew to get sick of it/(badly?) home-sick? enough time for relationships to build up, & then fall apart? enough time for lots of discoveries & excitements, & wonders & enough time to become weary of all of that...? )
(timeline internal to the story may be different longer/shorter, spaced, intervals, etc., than the external series 5-year timeline. i think maybe, up to?, ~10 years of the expedition, before the crisis/breakdown return home, etc.? )
Season 1.
setting out, back story on developing the mission, etc.
Season 2.
grand adventures & discovery, bonding, etc.
Season 3.
starts with them as the greatest crew ever, best ship, best mission (better than star trek! ;p) &, but, then some troubling signs/undercurrent...
Season 4.
starts with things-are-still-good, but then something (bad?) happens, that breaks it/everything. the trust (leaves them shattred? fast or slow breakdown/break-up?) ends with them (deeply?) troubled. maybe end this season with the return-to-earth order (concealed/kept secret? communications system breakdown? sabotage/destroy the "ensible"-type device?, or ftl messenger probes, or something?)
Season 5.
everything falls apart, disagreements, divisions, factions? (how many? which? etc....?) etc., eventually pro/anti captain max & continuing the mission? eventually just captain max & the robots (his, but not the b.o.b.(s(?)) (what happens to his supporters if/when/any?), ends with the set-up/scenario for where the ship & crew is @ the start of the movie/as the palomino crew finds them (though there's still a long interval between those 2 points end-beginning; do i want to do something with that huge gap of space-time....?)
6 (mini-season or follow-up something?)
life on the cygnus after the end of season 5, to the time when the palomino shows up?
7 the events of 'the black hole', the film, from reinhart/cygnus perspective?
-IMAGES--the cygnus departs (space-dock, earth-luna orbit? @ one of the lagrange points?) , brilliantly lit up, the glass hull-panels in display mode, doing a show/tricks... that huge, beautiful ship, with various images playing over the glass-panel hull (max r. - inspirational speech from the captain?)
-LOOSE NOTES-
partly inspired by the lost franklin expedition, scott-antarctica, etc....
(that theme music from the movie... ^__^ <3 !)
need to sort out the concordance with the film, etc.
- relationships, history, etc. as from the film?
need to reconcile the wonky &/or dated science... . - stick as close to real-world physics/science, space travel, etc. as possible?
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(Disney's) The Black Hole: The Cygnus (the story of, - outline/ideas.)
Science Fictiona series proposal for Disney+ :) #specscript A lost expedition. How does mankind's greatest adventure turn into a nightmare of madness & betrayal; how does a crew of the best and the brightest that humanity has to offer, turn into a ship of th...